There's been a bit of talk on here as to where in Cambodia the pit stop is. I stumbled across filming of the race while in Phnom Penh, and hung out at the pit stop for 3 hours, watching all of the action. The pit stop is at Wat Phnom, which is the founding place of Phnom Penh. Sorry, no pictures to back this up, as it was a 'locked site'. We were told to put our equipment away or it'd be confiscated.

Phnom Penh has few like "internationally known sites" and Wat Phnom would be a likely spot. I've been to Phnom Penh. Very few places have like, a small secluded flat spot suitable for a pit stop that is like "well known on tv"

The way Harlem sprints at the end, as if on que, or at least they were waiting for their crew to join them, I think they are just reaching a cluebox at St Mary's church on Toompea. Also there was another camera crew just waiting up there for them to get closer.

Ngchikit who shot the video has sent be a very quick response to my list of questions!! so much!!

I did ask if he had the impression or not if they were really racing.

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We were there on 3 August. I think it was something like 11am in the morning (Estonia time). We were facing the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral with The Toompea Castle behind us. Then we saw the two guys rush out from a park on our right and shouted: "Taxi!". There were no taxi around so they started going uphill to our left. We then saw the crewmen behind them as they went past us and then uphill. That's when I took out my video camera and started shooting. I think they really were racing.

I just went to google map, the place where I saw them is called "Lossi Plats" and they ran towards north on "Toom-Koli".

We did not see any other team.

Who's making me a pretty MAP???

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No, we did not follow Herb and Nat and heard nothing about them, so we have no idea where they went.

In my opinion, I think Herb and Nat were moving slowly due to the massive backpack they were carrying... but I could be wrong. I think the park they came out of could be a stop or something. Sorry I am not familiar with TAR terminology. I followed a few previous, earlier seasons and enjoyed them but I am not a big fan like you are.

For your information, the weather that morning was cloudy but it improved a lot in the afternoon. So if you see any other pics or videos that day of a sunny Tallinn with blue skies then it is an afternoon shot.

And embedding the video by permission!!

Is there anything else y'all want to know?

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The second crew spotted by Chateau looks like the Orange Team crew. I still have some doubts about the Trotter crew. If you expand the Lossi video to fullscreen and watch closely, you'll see that he's not filming them at all. And at the harbor, he misses the critical part: the interaction with the cab driver.

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